Posts Tagged wordplay

Again, drawing on my tablet, this time using the Autodesk SketchBook Pro app for Android for drawing and colouring each panel. However, I resorted to Gimp on my desktop machine to make the composite. I’m still looking for the perfect comic-making app.

Itchy and Knee play on the swings and roundabouts. In their usual style they play too hard, and go flying. After a near-miss in mid-air they manage to land safely, if awkwardly, on the still swinging and spinning rides, having now swapped places with each other. Caption: The swings and roundabouts of outrageous fortune.

Today Itchy and Knee examine the problems of masculine identity in the modern world, with special emphasis on the practical aspects with respect to the consumer society and the ready-made garment industry. Not to mention some easy irony.

1. Real Men(TM) don't buy "Easy-Iron" shirts
(Itchy effortlessly irons a shirt using just one finger whilst watching TV. Big red cross)
2. - Preferring instead the kudos of "Hard-to-iron" wear.
(Knee is kneeling in the wreckage of the ironing board, his head bleeding. He tries to protect himself his hands as an animated shirt flings the iron at his head. Big green tick)
3. - or the extreme glory of the "downright un-ironable"
(Itchy proudly displays his extremely crinkled attire. Big green tick and yellow star!)
4 And don't get me started on "Easy Repayments"
(Knee is gripped by the throat and held off the ground, in the giant maw of a thug about to wallop him with a cosh. The thug's sleeveless vest says "EASY IRON")

We were listening to a local rock band playing covers, and I was drawing this comic.

A little girl appeared and asked if she was “allowed” some paper and “allowed” to use the coloured pencils. She’ll be a dress designer one day, she confidently informed us.

I drew her drawing as she drew, mostly from memory as she wouldn’t look up until she’d finished (you can also see my thumbnails for Itchy and Knee’s comic on the same page.) Then her brother appeared and wanted a portrait too. He pulled a face, so I drew it that way.

Itchy & Knee in Ringers
1. I & K come across an object in a field
2. K: what is it?
3. I: It's a cow bell!
4. To K's surprise, I rings the bell wildly
5. CLANG!
6. (A cow appears, with jacket and holding a towel) : You rang?